Rating: 
Summary: Projective and Imaginative, but so was "Silent Spring"
Review: Science, today, is not necessarily "scientific"; the Editor-in-Chief of the British Journal of Medicine is on public record that 99% of the articles in this medical journal are NOT scientific. No great advance in science ever resulted from the the so-called "scientific method". (I wrote a Masters thesis on the tacit dimention of personal knowledge; people "know" thngs without necessarily being able to verbalize the things they know (e.g. Einstein was intuitive far more than he was "scientific", and so was Leonardo da Vinci (note how scientific his art is and note how artistic his science is). "The Coming Global Superstorm" is a profound statement.
Rating: 
Summary: Pardon me while I smirk!
Review: Hucksterism of the first order! Mr. B and Mr. S have to be chortling up there sleeves. Every bad weather event can be used to prove their point. Guess what? Bad weather happens and it's not all from global overheating. I'm not saying we should be complacent or let down our research but this book will do nothing to prove any facts about our future. Makes for good radio theater and snake oil sales but Mr. B knows this already.
Rating: 
Summary: One of the books to let people think.
Review: Sorry for giving my comment already, this is to soon because I only reacted on the comments. First I have to read the book. What I understand of comments of the book is that it is already controversial in the view of scientists (the hardliners), one of the reviewers (Suzanne Gord)is I think very strikt in her view and for people who like to think different it can be very painfull to throw with words like "superstition" and so on. Nowadays there are a lot of people who think more objective and know there are more thing s than science like to know, even scientists.
Rating:
Summary: More superstition than superstorm
Review: Strieber uses the same sell-fiction-as-fact marketing spin as he did in the bestselling, Communion: A True Story.Fresh from predicting the Y2K apocolypse, Streiber, with his sidekick Bell, spin a terrifying yarn of worldwide demise. Neither are meteorologist or scientist of any kind for that matter. Meteorologist that have been asked, have said that the book's theories are highly illogical. I agree with the scientist. Read it for fiction but don't be duped into believing it.
Rating: 
Summary: Good---but they blew their credibility
Review: Please read the prior review "Compelling Hypothesis (chachetpanache@hotmail.com)" by Kevin of San Francisco. His is the best review and I totally agree with it. However, I would like to add more to it: Strieber and Bell presented a good, solid case concerning their climatology theories. They weaved the most current and important findings and hypothesis of meterologists, geologists, anthropologists and others to make a compelling case. However, where I part with Kevin's view is that these two guys really blew it with all the New Age speculations concerning andvanced and ancient civilizations and quoting the work of established wackos like Charles Hapgood & Graham Hancock. Strieber and Bell already did not start off having a credible standing with their past sensationalism either. Therefore, they should have kept the speculation -- however well defined and admitted -- out of this book. It would have been better (and more profitable for them) to put the new age mumbo jumbo into another book, instead. Besides, they really didn't need it at all to make their case. The fact that global warming's effects are real AND the historical truth that the Earth is really in an interglacial period between ice ages (which is due to come to an end soon, in geologic time, greenhouse gases or not) makes for this to be an important issue. I just take exception to the messengers who do not make it any easier to woo established experts & politicians over the side of proactive action. Because of that major flaw, what I would like to see is someone with more credibility write a book similiar to this one in either rebuttal and/or support. Else, as a critically thinking citizen, the jury is still going to be out on this one as far as I am concerned.
Rating: 
Summary: Great Reading BUT
Review: Its obvious that Whitley Strieber is a great writer. It doesn't say whether Art Bell wroteany sections but he's an expert on many topics.I like how they wove astronomy, archaeology, meteorology and paleontology into a fascinating theory. What I don't like is the fact that they never touched on the importance of the world's forests to the ecosystem, weather and climate.They discussed auto emissions alot but not one snippet about the destruction of the great Amazon Rain forest and its impact on the weather. Since the 1960s, literally millions of acres of dense forest in South America has been cleared and burned. I blame the destruction of the forests on the recent rainstorm and flood in Venezuela that killed 50,000 people. Few people realize how trees affect the carbon dioxide and water levels in the atmosphere. I hope that Art and Whitley do a future book on the Amazon rainforest. John
Rating:
Summary: Stick with Aliens Whit
Review: I have read the book and it is in line with all of the other environmentalist extremist stuff already available, and it adds nothing to it either. There is no real science in it and it better placed in the realm of speculation.It didn;t scare me either. It is a tedious as well. I have read and enjoyed all of Striebers books except for this one. I would like to attribute this failure to his affiliation with Art Bell, whom he doesn't need either.
Rating:
Summary: book review/ the coming global superstorm
Review: excellent book! i recommend it highly. a good and easy read for the general public- well thought out, plenty of excitement mixed with potential reality, generally accurate (in my opinion) with regards to changing global climatic circumstances for the earth. The book bogs down a bit with prehistoric history at the beginning, but is quickly made up with the hypothetical/ real story of the superstorm that engulfs the planet interspersed throughout the book...
Rating:
Summary: Superstorms Upon Us
Review: In the atmospheric scheme of things this book is not far fetched, nor totally out of line. The atmosphere works with a certain amount of equilibrium. Anyone can witness this fact while watching the Weather channel. To over simplify the process, when cold air plunges south from the North Pole(Northern Hemisphere)an equal amount of warm air rushes northward on the other side. Nature is keeping a balancing act. What goes up must come down, so to speak. Anyway as a climatologist and avid weather watcher, I can safely say the weather systems that will effect the planet earth will become larger and more intense and a rapid movement towards another Ice Age is certainly possible. Streiber and Hill back the book with lots of facts and this is a must read. By the way, Super-Typhoons( Hurricanes, Cyclones, etc) get that rating when maximum sustained winds exceed 155 mph. In the excerpt Super Typhoon max would have been Category 5 much sooner than reported in the book. Minor error.
Rating:
Summary: Okay, I'm Spooked
Review: I started this book a couple of days before the new year. Before I was half way through the book, severe storms with hurricane force winds had hit France. By the time I had finished the book the chief meterologist of the U.S. and Great Britain had issued a joint statement warning of global warning. Now Scotland has been hit by a storm with sustained winds of 100 m.p.h. This is exactly the scenario Mr. Bell and Mr. Strieber lay out in their book. It made an already scary book even scarier. This is a thought-provoking book and I recommend it for everyone.
| 
